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Publisher: Nintendo

Developer: Nintendo EAD

An absolute staple for Nintendo platforms, Mario Kart has shipped a sequel for nearly every piece of Big N hardware released in the last 20 years -- and Mario Kart DS is certainly one of the best of them all. This latest portable edition of the long-running franchise polished the core mechanics of racing, drifting around corners and screwing your opponents up with banana peels and Blue Shells to such a shine that Nintendo's still promoting the game with new advertising and hardware bundles to this day -- over five years after its release. It even managed to find a balance that its Wii counterpart couldn't quite reach. That's some incredible longevity, and some big shoes for the next portable sequel to fill.